Bugs & Birdies

Bugs & Birdies is a survival game set across a pixel-art sea of islands. You begin on a small island with only the Origin Block, gather materials, build a farmstead and prepare for beetle swarms that attack after dark. You can play alone or with up to three friends.

Explore the islands

Swim between varied islands, including flowering meadows, deep forests, deserts, jungles, snowy fields with penguins, mushroom lands and volcanic ash. Canyons and waterfalls shape the terrain, while ruined islands and abandoned camps hint at earlier visitors. Worlds are procedurally varied, and wind, rain, storms, drifting fog and changing tides affect the islands.

Play together

Open your world through Steam to up to three friends or other players. Work together to expand the farmstead, split up to mine and fish, defend the fences, descend into dungeons and chat as you work. Friends who return later resume where they left off, with everything still in their backpacks.

Gather and craft

Chop wood, break stone and dig for ore and Mithril. Use what you gather to make tools, weapons and armor, from stone axes and fishing rods to Mithril swords and dynamite. Cook at campfires, smelt at furnaces, grind at mills and brew at brewing stands; dishes heal or strengthen you in different ways. At the Enchanting Orb, combine a gem and a dragon tooth to customize your gear.

Build your farmstead

Plant fields and trees, fish from the shores and keep hens that follow you and fight alongside you. You can raise a whole army of hens, trade with frogs in their villages and markets, and furnish your home. Fences, gates, tall walls, torches and lanterns help shape and protect your home; hens can also enjoy a hot tub and trampoline.

Fish and face dangers

Each shore has its own fish, and catches vary with the weather, tides and time of day. Dark shapes move beneath the surface; lure one to your float and keep the line taut without snapping it. Storms can bring larger quarry: one Kraken rises from the deep, and another lives in lava.

After dusk, beetles gather into hunting swarms. Dark beetles bite, bright ones dazzle and red ones shoot. Defend the farmstead with fences and flame turrets, fight with swords and wands, and let your hens join in. Each morning, the Wheel of Fate determines the day's event, which can bring gentle rain, faster crop growth, a siege, falling dynamite or a day of darkness.

Explore the dungeons

The dungeons beneath the islands include crystal grottos, brood nests, a core-stone labyrinth, a sunken grotto where water beetles cross lakes, and a marble Lucky Hall with slot machines that take gems and can pay out a fortune. One tunnel worm is best left asleep. Deep underground, a rare falcon can become your companion, fight beside you and carry you over water and cliffs.

Build a portal shrine to enter the Uber Dungeon, an arena where successive waves grow tougher and offer richer rewards until you choose to leave.

Face the Beetle King

Summon the Beetle King and survive his rams, webs and calls to his brood. Defeating him opens access to magic, including mana, wands and potions.